Motivational Quotes

Life

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Best Quotes about Life

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark